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		roenxi 84 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool It does say that. Can you translate that into a measurement of radioactivity & medical risk? I don't think it is obvious. EDIT The report below it seems to literally be "nothing interesting happened". The thresholds here for something to be reportable are very low. Frankly I don't know why this story is upvoted so much but I'm not about to make a bigger deal about it than one sentence.

sithadmin 84 days ago [–]

300cpm is lower than what you’d be exposed to on a commercial airline flight (400-900ish cpm).

doetoe 83 days ago | | [–]

But is that the same thing? 300cpm says something about the risk to someone near the worker, not about what the worker has been exposed to

gblargg 83 days ago | | [–]

CPM is a function of the detector sensitivity/size and radiation level.

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